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Mr Cherickel said the construction of Nairobi One (NBO1) located in Karen, has already started and would be ready for business next November.

MBA1 has a full time staff with engineers working on a 24 -hour shift basis, 365 days of the year. Customers receive premium colocation services for up to 52 U racks, metered power, bespoke data centre power solutions, 1KWh to 12KWh per rack, caging and private customer suites.

Mr Cherickel said MBA1 is designed and built with concurrent maintainability to achieve commitment of 99.999 per cent uptime.

It will also have significant connectivity to the sub-sea cable system infrastructure and will become a core node for all terrestrial networks reaching out into the rest of East and Central Africa.

“By opening our site in Mombasa, Kenyan enterprises have an opportunity to build a real disaster recovery location to be compliant with distance requirements of global business continuity practices,” he said.